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** In "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", James Burke and astronomer Patrick Moore are turned into rabbits during a BBC broadcast, right after assuring the public ThisIsNoTimeToPanic.

* The Page Quote comes from a late 2000s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNrxk0JexHQ AT&T]] commercial involving a reporter named Slate Sanchez, who is reporting from a demolition site; this commercial was part of their "alter ego" series. He isn't an AT&T user, so he and his crew have no service and are unable to receive a call that they are directly in a new demolition zone. Cue a warning klaxon, the TV going out and an explosion sound.

* The page image, taken from the "Superbabs" segment of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Cinemaniacs!," has a news anchor reporting on a giant blob devouring Acme Acres. Unfortunately for the anchor, the blob starts devouring the news studio as well, and he screams in panic before the broadcast is lost.

* A truly disturbing example comes in the SeriesFinale of the Jim Henson property ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''. The main plot of the episode sees the WESAYSO corporation destroying the mating grounds of a particular insect; [[ForWantOfANail the lack of the bugs leads to a chain of events]] that ultimately results in snow clouds forming that will lead to the ''mass extinction of all life on Earth'', a SuddenDownerEnding and GreenAesop taken to the extreme. To hammer the point home, the penultimate scene shows the main characters gathered around a television set watching news anchor Howard Handupme deliver the final forecast: "And taking a look at the long-range forecast: continued snow, darkness, and extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme. Goodnight... goodbye." We then cut to the family's home being gradually covered with snow...

** In the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', a radio crew reporting the attack on Tokyo realize they have no way out. Accepting it, they announce this fact to their listeners and continue reporting until Godzilla destroys the tower from which they're broadcasting.

* A non-fatal example in ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}''. We're introduced to the reporter Kate Gelato at the beginning of Heckraiser, where she reports on rumors of people being turned into animals. Near the end of the arc, after being caught in the middle of a city-wide ForcedTransformation, she reports on the incident while freshly transformed into a cat. Other than some size issues while conducting interviews, she seems largely unfazed by this.

* Both the [[Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953 1953]] [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005 2005]] film adaptations of ''Franchise/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' have the line "Once they begin to move, no more news comes out of that area."

* ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne''. As Godzilla tears through Ginza, a group of reporters stand on the roof of a roughly 40 meter tall building filming him and reporting live for the radio. The kaiju comes within a few meters and they only think to move after Godzilla sideswipes the building and the part they're standing on collapses, taking them with it.

* In ''Film/Predator2'', a female reporter is covering live a shoot-out between the police and Colombian drug dealers.

* A variation occurs in the first installment of ''Film/TheHowling''; the female protagonist is a TV reporter who brings her story on the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] in the forest back to civilization, and not only turns into a werewolf on live TV but is eventually shot dead. Problem was, most of the home audience dismissed it as a special effect.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheStand'', a radio call-in show discussing the government's crackdown on civil liberties during the Captain Trips plague is interrupted by a military squad entering the studio and gunning down the host.
** Also in the book, a local TV news team overtakes its government handlers and, with guns in hand, begins reporting the truth about the superflu epidemic rather than the "approved" version. The military stops them by bombing the station and killing everyone.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E16Sprout "Sprout"]], [[MonsterOfTheWeek the episode's]] [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments experiment]], which resembles a giant Venus flytrap, starts running amuck. We hear a female reporter reporting on it on TV, and she screams as it's implied she was eaten alive by the plant creature. Interestingly, after she gets eaten no one seems at all phased by this and no one mentions her again.

* The music video for the Music/BarenakedLadies song "[[youtube.com/watch?v=7Sw9Fh6uk4Q Odds Are]]" takes the form of a news bulletin as the anchors and field reporter [[ThePollyanna cheerfully]] cover a series of catastrophic events including a [[ColonyDrop meteor impact]], an AlienInvasion, [[GaiasVengeance global warming]], a [[ClimacticVolcanoBackdrop volcano]] that erupts dinosaurs, a ZombieApocalypse, and finally a [[NukeEm nuclear war]]. By the time the bomb drops, the weatherman is a ZombieInfectee, the newsdesk is on fire, and the studio backdrop has collapsed.

* The music video for the Music/BarenakedLadies song "Odds Are" takes the form of a news bulletin as the anchors and field reporter [[ThePollyanna cheerfully ]]cover a series of catastrophic events including a [[ColonyDrop meteor impact]], an AlienInvasion, [[GaiasVengeance global warming]], a [[ClimacticVolcanoBackdrop volcano]] that erupts dinosaurs, a ZombieApocalypse, and finally a [[NukeEm nuclear war]]. By the time the bomb drops, the weatherman is a ZombieInfectee, the newsdesk is on fire, and the studio backdrop has collapsed.

** Babidi theatrically declares the beginning of his genocidal rampage through a global telepathic broadcast. Keeps giving updates to the increasingly-terrified populace as he makes progress, only to have his last broadcast show everyone Goku's Super Saiyan 3 transformation followed by Buu and Goku's first fight, and then his own death at the hands of Buu.

* A non-lethal version happened in TheEighties cop show ''Series/Hunter1984 Hunter'' when Hunter and [=McCall=] chased a criminal into a news studio during a live broadcast. [[DaChief Captain Devane]] is at home watching all this on television. He just shakes his head at the sight of his two detectives looking embarrassed at the camera.

* A non-lethal version happened in TheEighties cop show ''Series/{{Hunter}}'' when Hunter and [=McCall=] chased a criminal into a news studio during a live broadcast. [[DaChief Captain Devane]] is at home watching all this on television. He just shakes his head at the sight of his two detectives looking embarrassed at the camera.

''Manga/[[Arachnid]]'': Towards the end of the Manga, a female reporter is doing a broadcast about a horde of sex zombies taking over the city when she is attacked by a group of them, ending the broadcast.

* A reporter is eaten on camera (though off-screen) at the end of the second episode of ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead''.

* A one-off reporter in ''Manga/DeathNote'' - right after the Second Kira just killed a lot of reporters who disagreed with Kira - deliberately imperils his own life, John Hancock-style.

* In Tim Burton's ''Film/Batman1989'', some news anchors are discussing the Joker's act of chemical terrorism on Gotham with the death of two models, both of whom have the Joker grin on them. A paper is slipped to the male anchor informing them of three more chemical deaths, when suddenly a female anchor starts laughing uncontrollably, and then falls over dead with the victims' characteristic grin on her face, becoming one of the at least 19 victims of the chemical.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', newscaster Mike Engel and his crew are covering the hospital evacuations from Gotham General Hospital - the hospital the Joker destroys. He and his crew hastily board one of the school buses evacuating patients and doctors... alas, it's the very bus the Joker arranged to hijack. The Joker, never missing an opportunity, forces them to transmit another message to the city, with Engel reading a statement for him.

* ''Film/Dracula2000''. A cameraman is filming TV reporter Valerie Sharpe when suddenly her neck snaps taunt and blood appears on her neck. The cameraman lowers the camera [[MissingReflection to see Dracula has her in his grip]]; he then kills the cameraman and adds Valerie to his VampiresHarem.

* In the second live-action ''[[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed Scooby Doo]]'' movie, the news report on the monsters terrorizing town is interrupted by the Black Knight, and the broadcast suddenly cuts off. Nothing very terrible happened to the reporter since she was actually the BigBad in disguise.
* In ''Film/VantagePoint'' the reporter at the start is right at the scene when the president is shot and frantically reports the event and the sound of a distant explosion right before being killed by the bomb in the podium exploding.
* The small town which is the setting for the movie ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' features an omnipresent disc jockey whom the audience [[TheVoice only hears]] over various radios; he is attacked by the Gremlins while on the air ("You're not Rockin' Rickey fans!!") but in something of a subversion he survives and is back on the air at the end of the movie.

* In ''Film/RoboCop2'', reporters from numerous TV studios show up to report the announcement of Delta City, and the unveiling of the new [[TitleDrop Robo Cop 2]] model. Moments after being tempted by the Nuke drug, the original Robo Cop shows up and a massive gun battle erupts that pits [=RoboCop=] 2 vs the original, the Detroit P.D., and O.C.P. security. Once Robo Cop 2's rampage ends, among the dozens of dead and injured are police, security, bystanders, paramedics, and newscasters.
* In ''Film/CountdownToLookingGlass,'' reporter Mick Boyle is on a ship next to the first nukes going off... which is summarily itself nuked.

** In the original ''[[Film/{{Gojira}} Godzilla]]'', a radio crew reporting the attack on Tokyo realize they have no way out. Accepting it, they announce this fact to their listeners and continue reporting until Godzilla destroys the tower from which they're broadcasting.
** In the 1998 American ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' movie, there are around three or four unnamed or unimportant reporters who buzz around Godzilla during his rampage. On the other hand, this is averted with the minor role of the camera guy - Victor "Animal" Palotti - who works with the main female character... He runs through the giant lizard's legs in front of it to get a good shooting angle, and Godzilla seems to flatten him... Then we find out that Animal [[ByWallThatIsHoley stood right in the empty spot between Godzilla's toes]]. He [[BringMyBrownPants couldn't believe his luck]] himself, either.

* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve''. Happens to [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed poorly disguised]] Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger copy -- just when the Governator has finished giving a press conference to say everything's going to be all right when the roof falls in on him and California starts sliding into the sea.

* And ''Film/{{Christine|2016}}'' is a biopic of Christine Chubbuck, which of course ends with her on-air suicide. See RealLife below as well.
* There are a couple of these in the TitleSequence of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''
-->"The president has direct contact with the CDC and head of FEMA. No further quest-OH MY GOD!"

* ''Film/{{Quarantine}}'': The two leads are doing a "lighter side of the news" piece on life in a firehouse when their Engine Company gets called to the infected apartment building.

* A non-fatal example in ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}''. We're introduced to the reporter Kate Gelato at the beginning of Heckraiser, where she reports on rumors of people being transformed into animals. Near the end of the arc, after being caught in the middle of a city-wide ForcedTransformation, she reports on the incident while freshly transformed into a cat. Other than some size issues while conducting interviews, she seems largely unfazed by this.